Mandatory forced profiles in Windows 7 like in Windows XP
Is it possible to force all users to use the same profile in the Windows 7 world? The computer is in a domain environment. This is a practice we have done since the Windows NT days and it works well. The profile is mandatory so no one can make changes to it. I would like to keep this same setup in Windows 7 but cannot seem to get a user logged in successfully.
June 29th, 2011 1:10am

It is not possible. However those users cannot share one profile. The profiles must be created per each user. For more information please read: How to assign a mandatory user profile in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307800 How to customize the default local user profile when you prepare an image of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289/en-usPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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June 30th, 2011 10:50am

I most likely did not ask my question plainly enough. So in NT and XP we have a forced mandatory profile (not a roaming one) setup. We have one of these for each of the areas in our facility. Then we have a template user for each of those areas. The generic forced mandatory profile is what is in the profile path for said template. Then when we need to setup a new user for a specific area we just go copy that template and put in the new users id, password, etc. However, that profile path is still pointing to this generic forced mandatory profile that has all the desktop items, mapped drives, etc that the user will need. This has worked great. In Windows 7 I am finding in my testing that with the .man on the ntuser.* the user can't even sign in. If I change the ntuser.man to ntuser.dat (which defeats the purpose) then the user can sign on but he gets signed in as a temp user, not as that person's windows id. When I looked a the network directory that houses those mandatory profiles, the .v2 is created and the security is correct. It just does not perform the same way in Windows 7 as it did in the NT/XP world.Bonita
June 30th, 2011 5:06pm

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